Liliana Leonidovna Gasinskaya (Russian: Лилиана Леонидовна Гасинская; Ukrainian: Ліліана Леонідівна Гасинська, Liliana Leonidivna Hasynska, born July 21, 1960)[1] is a woman who defected from the Soviet Union in 1979. On board a Soviet cruise ship, SS Leonid Sobinov (Black Sea Shipping Company), in Sydney Harbour, Gasinskaya slipped out of a porthole wearing only a red bikini (earning her the nickname "The Girl in the Red Bikini").[2][3][4]
Liliana Gasinskaya
She was born in 1960 in Alchevsk in Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR to a musician father and actress mother, but later moved to Odesa.[5] When Gasinskaya was 14, she decided to attempt to leave the USSR and thus graduated from the Odesa Marine Tourism Service Vocational School with the qualification of a ship waitress. She was then assigned to work at the Black Sea Shipping Company.[6] She became a cleaner on the Leonid Sobinov.
After swimming ashore in the evening of January 14, 1979, she was sheltered by Bill Green, a photographer at Sydney University. Gasinskaya was later nearly apprehended by staff from the Soviet embassy, but managed to hide from them with the help of journalists from The Daily Mirror, which subsequently interviewed her.[5] A debate ensued over whether then Immigration Minister Michael MacKellar should grant Gasinskaya asylum or deport her, as was customary for other ship deserters. Despite her unspecified claims of repression, which one commentator sneered may have been "the shops in Russia are boring", she was allowed to remain.[4][7]
SheShe later earned $15,000 as the first nude centerfold in Australia's edition of Penthouse magazine.[4]
Referencesedit
^"Дівчина в червоному бікіні. Розсекречена справа КГБ". Історична правда (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
^Soviet defectors: the KGB wanted list. Hoover Press. 1985. pp. 135–. ISBN9780817982331.
^Anderson, Zoe (2012). "Borders, babies, and "good refugees": Australian representations of "illegal" immigration, 1979". Journal of Australian Studies. 36 (4): 499–514. doi:10.1080/14443058.2012.727449. ISSN 1444-3058. The most striking contrast in the ways in which refugees/boat people were depicted was through the high-profile story of Liliana Gasinskaya...
^ abc"Cabinet papers 1979: Liliana Gasinskaya: Red Bikini Girl". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
^ abTeeseling, Ingeborg van (30 April 2018). "Australia's refugee crisis and the woman in the red bikini who jumped the queue". The Big Smoke. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
^"История самой известной перебежчицы из СССР". Рамблер/субботний (in Russian). 14 June 2019. from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
^"Liliana no braver than Viet refugees". The Age. 23 January 1979. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
External linksedit
Eduard Anriushchenko. A girl in red bikini. Declassified KGB case (Дівчина в червоному бікіні. Розсекречена справа КГБ). Istorychna Pravda (Ukrayinska Pravda). 10 December 2020.
January 01, 1970
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